ANT 104-05 - Anthropological Inquiries

4 credits (Fall)

Human Adaptation and Diversity. This course takes four-field anthropological approach to explore the relationship between human diversity and adaptation to natural environments. Questions we will address include how have environments influenced human biological and social evolution, and what are some of the diverse ways that humans have developed to confront environmental challenges? How and why is that diversity under threat today, and what implications might this have for human’s ability to adapt to the world’s most pressing environmental challenges?

Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Roper